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Arab Reaction to Shoe Attack on Bush
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We, the undersigned, understand and sympathize with the sentiment expressed in the action of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at President Bush, shouting, "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq." We, too, feel for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq, thanks to the policies of the Bush administration.
It's outrageous that al-Zaidi could get two years in prison for insulting George Bush, who is directly responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Iraqis and 4,200 U.S. troops, and for the displacement of 5 million Iraqis. The one who should be in jail is Bush, not Muntadar al-Zaidi.
We call on the Iraqi government to immediately release al-Zaidi without charges.
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Bush claims victory, he gets shoes
In one magnificent act, Muntather Al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Al-Baghdadiya television, epitomized the truth of the defeat of the United States in Iraq and lifted the spirit of resistance within the hearts of all Arabs, matching that of the Iraqi people who continue to resist imperialism and colonialism and who refuse humiliation.
It is Bush who is humiliated, and from it he cannot recover. He had snuck into Iraq, unannounced, to sign an illegal treaty with his puppet stooge aimed at institutionalizing the US occupation. Two flying shoes destroyed the façade upon which he and his cronies claim victory in Iraq.
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A Saudi sheik offered $10-million to purchase Mr. al-Zaidi shoes, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel said. The shoes are being kept as evidence, however.
In Sadr City, the impoverished Shia suburb that was Mr. al-Zaidi's journalistic beat, thousands turned up for a protest, waving shoes, burning U.S. flags and demanding the release of the reporter.
On Facebook, more than 2,500 people declared themselves fans on a page dedicated to Mr. al-Zaidi.
"God salutes you, hero," one woman wrote on that page.
"These shoes were a laser beam ... finally, someone small ... humiliates a U.S. president. That journalist is my hero," wrote another Facebook user, Halla Saad al-Zubaydi.
Mr. al-Zaidi "did million times better" than the Mideast's Arab rulers, wrote a Jordanian reader on the Arabian Business website.
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